Recorded answers
1,175 recorded answers
How to approach it
The productive route is to sweep decade by decade rather than free-associate, because sixty-odd years of chart history are unevenly stocked in memory. Begin with the eras whose hits get heavy recurrent airplay, write down four or five titles for each, then push into corners most players skip: novelty records, soundtrack themes, disco one-offs, country crossovers and foreign-language smashes. Rarity pays, so a title that feels faintly embarrassing or half-forgotten usually outscores an obvious classic. Verify each candidate against the chart's actual rules, because a song that only led a separate sales or airplay tally does not count. Keep a running list and send the strangest qualifying title first.
Get a hint
Cast your net across the entire post-war era of chart history instead of the handful of decades you know by heart, because every period of the survey contributes qualifying titles.
A little more
Then lean on the styles that fill year-end retrospectives: dance fads, film themes, country crossovers and grand ballads, all of which produced chart-toppers with surprising regularity.
One step further
Finally check the fussy clerical details, since duet credits, medleys, remixed versions and titles wrapped in brackets routinely reached the summit and slip past anyone listing in a hurry.
Reveal answers 1,175
- I Just Can't Stop Loving YouDeep Cut85points
- I Just Want to Be Your EverythingDeep Cut85points
- I Knew I Loved YouDeep Cut85points
- I Knew It, I Knew YouDeep Cut85points
- I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)Deep Cut85points
- I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)Deep Cut85points
- I Love a Rainy NightDeep Cut85points
- I Remember EverythingDeep Cut85points
- I Think I Love YouDeep Cut85points
- I Wanna Love YouDeep Cut85points
- I Want to Be WantedDeep Cut85points
- I Will Follow HimDeep Cut85points
- I Write the SongsDeep Cut85points
- I'll Be Loving You (Forever)Deep Cut85points
- I'll Be Your EverythingDeep Cut85points
- I'll Take You ThereDeep Cut85points
- I'm Henry VIII, I AmDeep Cut85points
- I'm Leaving It Up to YouDeep Cut85points
- I'm Real (Murder Remix)Deep Cut85points
- I'm SorryDeep Cut85points
- I'm Telling You NowDeep Cut85points
- I'm Too SexyDeep Cut85points
- I'm Your AngelDeep Cut85points
- I'm Your Baby TonightDeep Cut85points
- I'm Your Boogie ManDeep Cut85points
- I've Been Thinking About YouDeep Cut85points
- If I Can't Have YouDeep Cut85points
- If Wishes Came TrueDeep Cut85points
- If You Wanna Be HappyDeep Cut85points
- Imma BeDeep Cut85points
- In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)Deep Cut85points
- Incense and PeppermintsDeep Cut85points
- IncompleteDeep Cut85points
- Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)Deep Cut85points
- Inside Your HeavenDeep Cut85points
- Invisible TouchDeep Cut85points
- IrreplaceableDeep Cut85points
- Island GirlDeep Cut85points
- Isn't It a PityDeep Cut85points
- It's All in the GameDeep Cut85points
- It's Still Rock and Roll to MeDeep Cut85points
- It's Too LateDeep Cut85points
- Jacob's LadderDeep Cut85points
- Jimmy CooksDeep Cut85points
- Johnny AngelDeep Cut85points
- JoyrideDeep Cut85points
- Judy in DisguiseDeep Cut85points
- Just Give Me a ReasonDeep Cut85points
- Kansas CityDeep Cut85points
- Karma ChameleonDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks obscurity rather than fame, and the reveal makes that plain. Sing-along staples everyone knows sit at the floor of sixty points, while titles most players could not hum climb to eighty-five: Sukiyaki took the full hundred, and a long parenthetical such as (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song banked eighty-five simply because hardly anyone retrieves it in time. Two instincts get rewarded. One is digging into the late fifties and early sixties, where titles are short, odd and half-forgotten. The other is trusting memory for awkward full names with brackets, subtitles or remix tags, since those are the entries a hurried player skips. Expect the middle band to be crowded, because four hundred and ninety-seven answers landed on eighty-five and five hundred and ten on sixty, so reaching the top means picking the third or fourth title that comes to mind instead of the first. Anything genuinely ubiquitous scores, but it scores least.